Lillian Mirick
| Date of Interment or Death | 11/04/1938 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | D |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 11-6-4s |
Obituary
Funeral for Miss Mirick To Be Friday
Death of Librarian at Science School Occurs Wednesday Evening After Brief Illness
Funeral services for Miss Lilian Mirick, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Mirick, will be held Friday afternoon at two o’clock from the Congregational church in this city. Her death occurred Wednesday evening following a brief illness.
During Wednesday afternoon, Ms. Mirick though ill, attended to her duties at school with no thought of dangerous illness. She went to her home about 10:30 a.m. called her doctor and shortly after he sister, Grace Mirick at Fargo was notified and left for Wahpeton arriving shortly after four in the afternoon. During the afternoon, Miss Mirick’s condition became rapidly worse, and she was taken to the Wahpeton hospital where she died just before nine o’clock in the evening.
Miss Lilian Mirick was sixty-five years of age. She was born November 12, 1873 at Diamond Springs, Kansas. Most of her early life was spent at Dryden, New York. She attended the schools of that town and went later to Cornell University, specializing in library work. From 1897 to 1905, she was librarian of Southworth Library, Dryden; came to Fargo in 1905 and served as assistant librarian, Fargo public library. Coming to the State School of Science in 1907, she has been in continual service here since that time She was the first librarian at the Science School and is the only person who has held that position.
Her whole life was devoted to library work in which she was not only an efficient worker but a continual student. Her training and general knowledge were highly praised by an investigator or the Carnegie und. This factor is locally believed to have been the deciding one in Science Schools gaining the honor and value of a Carnegie gift two years ago.
Miss Mirick was a member and officer of the Congregational church, a charter member of the Business Womans Aid of that church and a former teacher in the Sunday school. She was a member of the North Dakota Library Association and took a keen interest in its activities. She was a member of the Fortnightly Literary Club and was faculty advisor of the Library Cub at the Science School. Miss Mirick had unquestionably a wider range of personal acquaintances among alumni than had anyone else ever connected with the Science School. Her work here began two years after the State School of Science was established. At the Alumni annual banquet last June, she was made honorary member the only such honor ever accorded since the association was founded some thirty years ago.
Among Miss Mirick’s many friends of an older generation were a number of pioneer residents who came from her home town in New York or from neighboring towns; former S.S.S. president, Earl G. Burch, now of Dryden; the Misses Dwight, owners of the Dwight Farm, the late John Miller, former Governor of North Dakota, Mrs. Miller still living in Duluth.
She is survived by one sister, Miss Grace Mirick, of Fargo, North Dakota and one brother, E. H. Mirick of Minneapolis, Minn., also a nephew, Robert B. Mirick, a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. Burial will be at Fairview Cemetery beside her father and mother. Lilian Mirick (From the Dakota Scientist)
This editorial was written at the request of the Editor of the Scientist by one of Miss Mirick’s many friends and aims to embody the opinion of the president of the school, its faculty, other employees, alumni and present students.
“At the time of her death Lilian Mirick had rounded out forty years as a librarian and was beginning her thirty-second year in the service of this school. The outstanding features of her work during all that time were unfailing courtesy and absolute devotion to duty. Further praise we make as she would wish it, sincere and short. Certain people of high excellence of character leave behind them, when they go from this earth, a memory that seems like a living presence. No friend of Miss Mirick entering the Science School Library, on an occasion from this time forth can fail to be conscious of that presence, and no one can fail to gain strength from the memory of a life so well lived.”,
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.